Alliteration Practice Worksheet
A Grade 5 ELA worksheet focusing on identifying and creating alliteration.
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Alliteration Practice Worksheet
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Read each section carefully and follow the directions. This worksheet will help you practice identifying and creating alliteration.
Alliteration is the repetition of the same beginning consonant sound in words that are close together. It's often used to create a musical effect or to make phrases more memorable. For example: "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
1. Which of the following sentences uses alliteration?
The cat sat on the mat.
Busy bees buzz beautifully.
She likes to read books.
He ran very fast.
2. Find the alliteration in the sentence: "Samantha sailed silently across the shimmering sea."
Samantha, sailed, silently
silently, shimmering, sea
across, the, shimmering
Samantha, silently, shimmering, sea
Complete each sentence by adding a word that creates alliteration.
3. The quick brown fox over the lazy dog.
4. Polly planted pretty in the pot.
5. Seven silly swam swiftly.
6. Write two sentences of your own that each contain alliteration. Underline the words that create the alliteration.
7. Alliteration uses the repetition of beginning vowel sounds.
True
False
8. "Tiny Tims took twenty toys" is an example of alliteration.
True
False